Chocolate cake (by Cristina Belver)

Thanks for sharing the recipe with us, Cristina. Here it goes:

I’LL TELL TOU HOW TO MAKE A CHOCOLATE CAKE

YOU’LL NEED:

1/2 cup of dark cocoa

1/2 cup of boiled water

1 teaspoon of sodium bicarbonate

100 g of softened butter

2 cups of sugar

2 eggs

2 ½ cups of flour

1 teaspoon of baking powder

¾ cups of milk

INSTRUCTIONS

• Preheat oven to 180 degrees
• Grease a cake recipient
• Put cocoa, boiled water, salt and bicarbonate in a little bowl
• In a separated bowl beat the eggs, butter with sugar, mix with flour and baking powder
• Mix all this with the cocoa
• Pour into prepared recipient
• Bake at 180 º C until a knife inserted in centre comes out clean, approximately for 30 minutes
• When the cake has room temperature, place cut in half horizontally and whip with dulce de leche.
• Put chocolate on the top and around the cake
• Put the cake into the fridge for one hour.

If you prefer you can add rhum to the dulce de leche and chopped walnut on the top